Snow, just 16, whose life has been troubled from the start. She lives with her grandmother, a well-intentioned but ineffectual, mentally ill alcoholic. Her mother, an apparent victim of drowning shortly after Snow's birth. Snow's family troubles seem destined to send her on the same downward spiral, especially when she learns she is pregnant. Will she end up like her mother and grandmother, her life wrecked on the shoals of good intentions and poor judgment?